Hi Alison
>Whatever that other is who writes poetry is much more inconstant and
>strange
>and private. I can write poems without accessing that self, and quite
>often
>do, for fun, but personally I don't think of them as "real" poems.
Do you think the writing part, although still part and interruptible, is in
some ways inviolable? I'm reading Doris Lessing's autobiography and she has
much to say on a self which watches (and in her case writes; she might
extend it (she doesn't) to everyone and say, the part that speaks our truest
words...) which isn't like CHinese box consciousness, or any other model,
but Lessing is very insistent on it and on its inviolable nature.
I wonder if this ordinary watching element is also that which registers
things like shame, or embarassment, involuntarily...
Best,
Edmund
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